Very cold, but pleasant winter weather. There is talk of the
Kanawha freezing over. The river is low and a severe “spell” will do it. Cotton
Mountain so slippery as to be dangerous to cross with teams or on horseback.
Dr. Joe went over today to the Eighty-ninth to see Captain Brown of
Chillicothe, whose mother is there. She was charged thirty dollars by a
liveryman to bring her from Charleston, a distance of forty-six miles. Dr.
Parker, of Berea, Cuyahoga County, agent of Sanitary Commission, visits us. We
are in no condition for inspection, but he is a sensible man and will make
proper allowances. Our sick in hospital is two, and excused from duty by
surgeon eight. — Snow lying all around.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 371-2
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